Senior Backend Engineer – Java, AI & Automation (4+ Years)

Description

Job Description:

Company: Springer Capital

Type: Internship (Remote, Part-Time/Full-Time)

Duration: 3–6 months

Start Date: Rolling

Compensation:

About the role:

We’re building high-performance backend systems that power our financial and ESG intelligence platforms and we want you on the team. As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll help us develop scalable APIs, automate data pipelines, and deploy secure cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to work alongside experienced engineers, contribute to real products, and see your code go live.

What You'll Work On:

As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll be shaping the systems that power financial insights.

Engineering scalable backend services in Python, Node.js, or Go

Designing and integrating RESTful APIs and microservices

Working with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis for data persistence

Deploying on AWS/GCP, using Docker, and learning Kubernetes on the fly

Automating infrastructure and shipping faster with CI/CD pipelines

Collaborating with a product-focused team that values fast iteration

What We’re Looking For:

A builder mindset – you like writing clean, efficient code that works

Strong grasp of backend languages (Python, Java, Node, etc.)

Understanding of cloud platforms and containerization basics

Basic knowledge of databases and version control

Students or self-taught engineers actively learning and building

Preferred skills:

Experience with serverless or event-driven architectures

Familiarity with DevOps tools or monitoring systems

A curious mind for AI/ML, fintech, or real-time analytics

What You’ll Get:

Real-world experience solving core backend problems

Autonomy and ownership of live features

Mentorship from engineers who’ve built at top-tier startups

A chance to grow into a full-time offer

Mandatory Criteria :

• Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
• Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
• Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
• Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.

# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
• Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
• Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
• Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
• Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
• Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
• Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.

Responsibilities:

Develop new back-end features in one Python/Java/Go

Collaborate with key stakeholders across different stages of the SDLC

Deliver high quality code and lead validation of the developed features

Skills and Qualifications:

5+ years of working experience in backend software development

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design

Strong analytical and debugging skills

Proficiency in one of Python/Java/Go

Hands on experience on big-data technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Cassandra etc

Familiarity with agile practices

About Araali:

Araali Networks is a SaaS based cybersecurity startup that has raised a total of $10M from well known investors like A Capital, Firebolt Ventures and SV Angels, and and through a strategic investment by a publicly traded security company.

The company is disrupting the cloud firewall market by auto-creating nano-perimeters around every cloud app. The Araali solution enables developers to focus on features and improves the security posture through simplification and automation. 

The security controls are embedded at the time of DevOps. The precision of Araali controls also helps with security operations where alerts are precise and intelligently routed to the right app team, making it actionable in real-time.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; 

designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.

At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).

Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.

Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics

Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)